{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-catherine-breillat-9789004326941","title":"The Cinema of Catherine Breillat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Cinema of Catherine Breillat, Bélot offers a detailed analysis of Breillat’s past and recent films. Breillat is one of the most internationally renowned French women filmmakers whose notoriety is built on her explicit representation of women’s sexuality. Most of her films rely on a female protagonist’s personal and intimate search of her self, characterised by her sexual journey.  Facing censorship and controversy, Breillat’s films do not easily fit classification and place the viewer into an uncomfortable position. This study looks at Breillat as an independent cinema auteur entertaining a close relation with her films by exploring and positing women, from adolescence to adulthood, as sexual beings reflecting her films’ identity emanating from Breillat’s personal or intimate scenes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a sharp, engaging volume, offering a complex feminist introduction to the films of this uncompromising cineaste.\" - G. A. Foster, Choice, 55.6, February 2018.     \"Sophie Be´lot’s book is to be welcomed as another passionate engagement with Breillat, more in line with some of the best, partisan, French work, by Claire Clouzot and others. These French studies come in close to the director’s auteur persona, responding to and defending Breillat’s seductive, yet contestatory, ethos and visual style. [...] a lovely book that presents a vivid, engaged apprehension of its subject.\" - Emma Wilson, French Studies, 73.1, January 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  Introduction : Catherine Breillat’s ‘Scenes-in-Time’  The Personal as the Intimate  The Intimate: ‘X’ for Censorship  The Manuscript’s Structure and Synopsis  1 ‘Le Cinema de Catherine Breillat’  An Intertextual and Transgressive Cinema: Sex is Comedy and Une Vieille Maîtresse  The Script of ‘Intimate Scenes’ in Sex is Comedy  Breillat’s Original Film Adaptation : Une Vieille Maitresse  2 Viewing (Dis)-pleasure  The ‘Cinematic Spectator’ in Tapage Nocturne  3 The Teen Years in Une vraie jeune fille, 36 fillette, and A ma soeur!  The Repressive French Society  Revisiting the Lolita Syndrome  Real ‘Becomings’\/Young Girls  4 A Male Adolescent Sexual Journey  ‘The Male Crisis’? in Brève traversée  5 Adult Female Sexual Desire  The Genre Film: Crime Drama in Sale comme un ange and Parfait Amour!  Empowerment in Masochism: Romance and Anatomie de l’enfer  Conclusion  Adaptation of Fairy Tales: Reading and Dreaming  Fairy Tales and Gender Expectations  Intimacy in Catherine Breillat’s Cinema  Bibliography Filmography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210692157783,"sku":"9789004326941","price":97.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cinema-of-catherine-breillat-9789004326941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}